Assignment

Where is terrorism occurring around the world?

Each year the Director of National Intelligence provides a briefing for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the threats facing the United States. Please read the Regional Threats section (pages 12 to 27) of the "Statement for the Record" presented by Director James Clapper in January 2014 and also the State Department "Annex of Statistical Information: Country Reports on Terrorism 2012." Select one country from the ten countries listed in Table 2 of the Annex, "Ten Countries with the most terrorist attacks, 2012." Find supplemental information on the selected country in the Central Intelligence Agency's "World Factbook" and the State Department's "Country Reports on Terrorism."

Reading:

Clapper, J.R. (2014). Statement for the Record: Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Retrieved from http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/140129/clapper.pdf

U.S. Department of State (2013). Annex of Statistical Information: Country Reports on Terrorism 2012. Retrieved from http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/210288.pdf

Supplemental Sources:

Central Intelligence Agency Library https://www.cia.gov/library

Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism http://www.state.gov/j/ct/index.htm

U.S. Department of State Country Reports on Terrorism, by year, at http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/

In about 250 words, summarize the nature of the terrorist threat in that country, the group or groups posing the threat, their apparent motive for terrorism, and the impacts of terrorism in 2012. Document your sources of information.